About This Item

  • TitleIs it you?
  • Call NumberCONE_0381
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing. Barefoot man and woman in nineteenth century bathing attire conversing at edge of shore; man in hat crouching on sand in right background; child with bucket falling into water and couple stepping into waves in center background. Caption: "'Is it you?'" -- A beach scene of the long ago when life was young and everyone went to Coney Island for a summer of fun -- From Valentine's Manual of Old New York, edited by Henry Collins Brown."
  • Date1936
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print: black & white, gelatin silver; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: July 6/36. Title from caption on verso. Verso: "Valentine's Manual, 1924."
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]
  • SubjectCourtship ; Seashore
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.